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ILCAA Home > Training > Seminars on the Middle East and Islamic ... > Beirut Seminars
Date: Friday, November 29, 2019
Place: Crowne Plaza Beirut, Hamra Main Street, Beirut, Lebanon
Spearkers・Title:
Yuko Tanaka (Ph.D. Candidate, SOAS, University of London) "Role of zandaqah/ zindīq in early Islamic theological writings"
Yoshiaki Tokunaga (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo/ University of Tehran) "Relations between the American Financial Mission and the parliament in the Reza Khan administration: The General Budget Act for 1303/1924-25"
Hideaki Hayakawa (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "Mahdī 'Āmil and the leftists' debates on the Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement"
Amane Kobayashi (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) "Incentives for stalemate: Challenges of political stabilization in post-civil war Libya"
Maher Jarrar (Professor, American University of Beirut)
Christoph U. Werner (Professor, University of Bamberg)
Nadia Bou Ali (Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut)
Youness Abuyoub (Chief, Governance and State-Building, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, UN)
Observers:
Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
Yezid Sayigh (Carnegie Middle East Center)
Emi Suzuki (Embassy of Japan in Syria)
Yuki Okabe (Kyoto University)
Maram Daher (Saradar Bank)
Momona Horikoshi (American University of Beirut)
Kai Ishigami (American University of Beirut)
For more details, please see here.
Date: Friday, November 30 - Saturday, December 1, 2018
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Manami Goto (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Exeter) "Changing attitude towards face masking: the case of Larak Island in the Persian Gulf"
Yusuke Motani (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "Financial Administration in Syria under the Rule of Muhammad Ali"
Hisashi Obuchi (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "Logic and the Conventionalist Ethics of Zayn al-Dīn al-Kaššī, the Disciple of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī"
Saki Yamamoto (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) "Impact of Women-Owned Small Business on Familial Relations in Contemporary Algeria"
Manami Ueno (Research Fellow of the Urban-Culture Research Center at Osaka City University) "Reintroduction of Religious Education to Turkish Public Schools in the 1940s"
Shinwoo Kim (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) "The Social and Economic History of Regional Disparities in Tunisia"
Prof. Livia Celine Wick (American University of Beirut)
Prof. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut)
Prof. Paul Ballanfat (Galatasaray University)
Prof. Yusuf Sidani (American University of Beirut)
Dr. Umut Azak (Istanbul Okan University)
Dr. Seiko Sugita (UNESCO)
Pierre Azar (Saint Joseph University)
Maram Daher (Lebanese University)
Hideaki Hayakawa (Lebanese University)
Ai Odoriba (Embassy of Japan)
Mitsuhiro Wada (Embassy of Japan)
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Ryo Mizukami (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "Shi'i Ulama's Writing Strategy on Imams' Faḍā'il in 12-14th Century Iraq"
Madoka Morita (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "Whose Peace and Security? Neighborhood and the Politics of Collective Testimony in Istanbul (1730-54)"
Woohyang Sim (Ph.D. Candidate, Waseda University, Tokyo) "What is Higher Education for? : Women and Educational Attainment in the GCC"
Ayaka Kuroda (Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto) "Religious Tradition and Modernity in the Forefront of Political Theory: The Case of Islamist Intellectuals in Contemporary Egypt"
Maher Jarrar (American University of Beirut, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages)
Astrid Meier (Orient Institute-Beirut)
Pierre Mouganie (American University of Beirut, Department of Economics)
Ahmad Moussalli (American University of Beirut, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration)
For more details, please see here .
Shoko Watanabe (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization) "State Formation, Religious Education, and Social Aspirations: The Expansion of the Tunisian al-Zaytuna after the Second World War"
Woohyang Sim (Waseda University) "The Educational Aspiration of Saudi Arabian Young Generation: Implication for Creating New Framework to Explain GCC Society"
Madoka Morita (The University of Tokyo) "Between Hostility and Hospitality: Neighborhoods and Dynamics of Urban Migration in Istanbul (1730-54)"
Kie Inoue (The University of Tokyo) "Rūzbihān Baqlī Shīrāzī's Conception of Prophets and Saints"
Martha Mundy (London School of Economics)
Yasuhisa Yamamoto (UN-ESCWA)
Malek Sharif (ILCAA / Orient Institute-Istanbul)
Paul Ballanfat (Galatasaray University)
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2014.
Speakers・Title:
Erina Ota-Tsukada (Keio University, Tokyo) ""Perfect Qualities and Perfection in Each Quality": The Career and Image of Influential Bureaucrat Zayn al-Dīn ibn Muzhir in the Late Mamlūk Period"
Madoka Morita (The University of Tokyo) ""Community's Peace" and Public Order: Neighborhoods and Urban Administration in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul"
Hiroki Okazaki (University of Paris III) "The Criticism of Despotism through the Fiction in the Arab World: An Outlook of Jurji Zaydān's Elitist Approach and 'Abdullāh Nadīm's Defense of Peasants"
Yoshihide Takeda (Chiba University) "Haifa as the Heart of British Policy towards Palestine: Considering from the Discussions of British Oil Policy during the First World War"
John Meloy (American University of Beirut)
Astrid Meier (Orient Institut-Beirut)
Malek Sharif (ILCAA Joint Researcher)
Carla Eddé (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Saint Joseph University)
Namie Tsujigami (Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo) "Saudi Women's Negotiation of Power and Space through Driving Campaign"
Takuya Murakami (Ph.D. Candidate, J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo) "What Kind of Role Does GCC Play for Regional Security?: The Significance of the Peninsula Shield Force Deployment to Bahrain and the Possibility of Cooperative Security"
Yusuke Kawamura (Ph.D. Candidate, Kyoto University/ Durham University) "Structural Adjustment and Social Protection in the MENA Region: Food Subsidies in Jordan"
Yushi Chiba (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/ The University of Tokyo) "Jordanian Broadcasting Strategy in the Changing Regional Media Landscape"
Hassan Hammoud (Lebanese American University)
Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut)
Ramzi Mabsout (American University of Beirut)
Maria Bou Zeid Farah (Notre Dame University)
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2012.
Mari Nukii (Research Associate, Waseda University, Tokyo) "The history of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services: Living as 'Arab Americans' in America before and after 9/11"
Nozomi Shiratani (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) "Reexamining the Islamists' triumph in Morocco after the Arab Spring: A study of the 2011 parliamentary elections"
Takumi Sato (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Shin Yasuda (Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Kyoto) "From ethic to Sharia-compliance: The development of Islamic tourism in the MENA region"
Yuri Ishida (JSPS Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Kyoto) "The Muslim intellectual network in the eighteenth century: Focusing on academic genealogies in Shāh Walī Allāh's autobiography"
Ichiro Ozawa (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo) "Production and employment of artillery in Iran and British influences, 1810–1848"
Guita Hourani (Notre Dame University)
François Burgat (Institut Français de Proche-Orient)
Rola Khatib (Lebanese University)
Wajih Kanso (Lebanese University)
Mansur Sefatgol (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Date: Friday, November 25, 2011.
Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) "Workings of power to the eyes of Cairene woman in her twenties in the eve of revolution"
Masaki Mizobuchi (Joint Researcher, Institute of Asian Cultures, Sophia University, Tokyo) "Arab Spring and the United States: Twilight of the Pax-Americana?"
Masako Shimizu (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) "The Participation of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority: The processes, impacts and implications"
Yoko Fujii (Lecturer, Nihon University, Tokyo) "Lebanon's image in narratives of pilgrimage in the 17th century"
Takayoshi Kuromiya (Ph.D. Candidate, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo) "Economic growth of resource-exporting countries: Taking Egypt and Saudi Arabia as examples"
Shigeto Kondo (Ph.D. Candidate, Keio University, Tokyo) "'Small states' diplomacy' during the First Oil Crisis: The cases of Kuwait, 1970-1973"
Sari Hanafi (Professor, American University of Beirut)
Hilal Khashan (Professor, American University of Beirut)
Karim Makdisi (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
Ray Mouawad (Assistant Professor, Lebanese American University)
Jean-Francois Verne (Associate Professor, Kaslik Holy Spirit University)
Habib Malik (Associate Professor, Lebanese American University)
Sayaka Nakano (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "A Study of the Abbasid Court Musicians Recorded in al-Aghani"
Keiko Ota (Research Fellow, Ochanomizu University) "The Meccan Sharifate and the Red Sea Trade: The Rise of Jidda as an Entrepot Port and the Policy of the Mamluk Dynasty toward Hijaz"
Naofumi Abe (Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo) "Mother, Wife, and Daughter in Law of Fath 'Ali Khan Donboli: A Study in Probate Inventories of a Local Notable in Nineteenth-Century Iran"
Hirotake Ishiguro (Ph. D. Candidate, Kobe University) "Inter-Party Competition and Quasi-Institutionalized Party System in the Middle Eastern Monarchies: The Case of Kuwait"
Akihito Kudo (Research Fellow, Osaka University) "French Orientalism and Legal Pluralism: Classification of Landed Property in Nineteenth-Century Algeria"
Satoshi Udo (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) "Reception of Modern Arab Literature in Japan: From Third-Worldism to Multiculturalism"
Stefan Leder (Director, Orient Institut Beirut)
Stefan Knost (Senior Research Fellow, Orient Institut Beirut)
Oussama Arabi (Lecturer, Lebanese American University)
Katia Haddad (Professor, Saint Joseph University)
Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn (Professor, American University of Beirut)
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies(JaCMES),2nd floor,Azariyeh Building A2-1, Beirut Central District (Downtown Beirut)
Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University) "Female Teacher as Pseudo-mother: The Role of Female Teacher in the Current Egyptian Educational Market"
Koji Horinuki (Ph.D. Candidate, Kyoto University) "Controversies over labour force naturalisation: 30 years of Emiratisation in the UAE"
Sayaka Nakano (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "The role of panegyrist-poets and praise poetry in the early Abbasid society"
Asuka Tsuji (Research Associate, Institute of Oriental Culture, The University of Tokyo) "The mass conversion of 1354 reconsidered: The Copts in Mamluk Egypt as depicted in the Life and Miracles of Anba Ruways"
Hiroko Miyokawa (Post Doctoral Researcher, Sophia University) "Nationalisms and national integration of Christians in Egypt and Syria"
Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "Against fatality: Kateb Yacine and Farjallah Haik"
Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (Professor, United Arab Emirates University)
Dr. Massoud Daher (Professor, Lebanese University)
Dr. Iman Farag (Researcher, Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales, Cairo)
Dr. Katia Haddad (Professor, Saint Joseph University)
Dr. Stefan Leder (Director, Orient-Institut Beirut)
Dr. John Meloy (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
Date: Monday, November 24, 2008.
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies(JaCMES),2nd floor, Azariyeh Building A2-1, Beirut Central District (Downtown Beirut)
Aiko Nishikida (Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) "Palestinians from the 'Seven Villages' : Their Legal Status and Social Condition"
Kenichiro Takao (Th.D. Candidate, Doshisha University) "Implication of 'Salafism' in Today's Sufism: The Case of Ahmad Kuftaru"
Yasuhiro Fukushima (Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies, J.F. Oberlin University) "The Current Situation and Problems on the Advancement of Middle East-Based Islamic Financial Institutions into Malaysia"
Hiroko Minesaki (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) "Gender and Authority in Islamic Discourses: In the Case of Female Preachers in Cairo and Environs Farm Village"
Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University) "Negotiating Body and Negotiating Selves in Consumer Culture: Make-up Practices of Young Female School Teachers in Contemporary Cairo"
Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "Cosmology of French Writing in Arabic Countries: Algeria and Lebanon"
Madawi Al-Rasheed (King's College, London)
Salim Chahine (American University of Beirut)
Katia Haddad (Saint Joseph University)
Toufic Houri (Imam Ouzai College of Islamic Studies)
Seiko Sugita (UNESCO)
Jaber Suleiman (Independent Researcher)
Date: Monday and Tuesday, November 26 and 27, 2007.
Place: Crowne Plaza Beirut, Hamra Street, Beirut(Ile de France Room, 1st Floor)
Aiko Nishikida (Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) "Palestinians in Diaspora: Their Identity and Nationalism in Jordan"
Akiko Sugase (Research Fellow, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) "The Third Face of Janus: Narratives and Images on the Rev. George Hakim among the Arabs in Galilee"
Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "Translating Theatre: Rabih Mroue in Tokyo"
Kenichiro Takao (Ph.D. Candidate, Doshisha University) "Ahmad Kuftaru, A Great 'Ulama' in Modern Syria : About Its Construction of Intellectual Authority"
Akiko Yoshioka (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) "Iraq and the Neighboring Arab Countries after the War"
Yoko Uno (Research Associate, Tsudajuku University) "Parliamentary Opposition and Diplomacy on the Eve of Republic of Turkey: The Second Group's Attitude to the Lausanne Treaty (1923)"
Yoko Sekiguchi (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) "A Case Study on the Introduction and Attempt of 'Sosyal Demokrasi' in Turkey: Republican People's Party (RPP), 1965-1972"
Pierre Abi-Saab (al-Akhbar)
Timur Göksel (American University of Beirut)
Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut)
Place: :Cultural Center (Albert Long Hall), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Masako Matsui (Lecturer, Keio University, Tokyo) "Capitulations and Tariff Questions in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Fumiko Sawae (Visiting Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology) "Islamist Women and Public Sphere in Turkey"
Housam Darwisheh (Ph.D. Candidate, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) "The Parliamentary Experience of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt"
Taku Osoegawa (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Tokyo) "The Dynamics Between the Lebanese Government and Hizbullah During the Crisis in Lebanon and Their Theoretical Relevance"
Takayuki Nakamura (Lecturer, Kanagawa Institute of Technology) "Essai sur la communication créole." (English translation will be provided)
Lecture:
Osamu Nishitani (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) "Deux notions occidentales de l'Humanité: Anthropos et Humanitas" (English translation will be provided)
Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn (American University of Beirut)
Metin Heper (Bilkent University)
Jale Parla (Istanbul Bilgi University)
Ayhan Kaya (Istanbul Bilgi University)


I think you would agree Pack Moms, it is so tempting to "give a dog a bone"…or a piece of rich turkey….or gravy covered mashed potatoes this busy holiday. They look at you with those sad, droopy eyes and of course, there is food everywhere! Although the average American gains a pound or two over the holidays, this much weight gain is not pet friendly.
Here are a few tips to keep your Fido or Felix healthy and happy this Thanksgiving!
Food & Exercise- Keep your pet on their standard diet. Avoid giving them turkey or other meats, since this can cause an upset stomach, vomiting, or diarrhea, all of which can ruin the celebration. If you want to offer them something special, try a little bit of a canned turkey based dog or cat food such as Merrick's Thanksgiving Day Dinner. And exercise! Yes, exercise is a must have this holiday season. Trust me. Logging a few extra miles or at least trips around the block will keep your pets mentally happy, their tummy trim and will keep us in shape too!
Paper/Plastic/Foil- Keep aluminum foil, plastic wrap, plastic bags and wax paper away from pets. Disposing of these items properly can prevent accidental intestinal blockage.
Bones and Chocolate- While a wishbone may bring you great fortune, it can bring your dog an unwanted problem. Any brittle or splintering bone, wish or otherwise, can become lodged in their esophagus as well as puncture a hole in their intestines. Naturally shed deer antlers are a great choice or how about a sweet potato chew? While chocolates may taste great, they contain theobromine which can be hazardous to your pet's health. Baker's chocolate is the highest in theobromine and can cause the most problems.
Snacks- Discourage friends and family from feeding your dog extra snacks and scraps. Snacks that are high in salt (chips and peanuts) and other fatty foods can cause Pancreatitis, which is a life-threatening condition. If you want to do something fun, try a pumpkin based treat. They smell great, pets usually love them and they are low cal alternative.
Safe Haven and I.D.- As with any holiday, see that your pet has a safe haven to move to…away from the festivities. This will give your pet a much needed "Time-Out" from the hustle of the holiday. Make sure that your pet has their identification tags on during all parties or get-togethers. With people coming in and out of the house it is very easy for your pet to wander through and open door. It is also helpful to get your pet micro-chipped. Most animal shelters have devices to scan for these chips and to identify the owner quickly.


"Enhancing Plug and Play Capabilities in Body Area Network Protocols" by Douglas T. Lally, John Stephen Synnott et al.
This project aimed to create a plug-and-play protocol for Body Area Networks (BANs). This protocol enables communication between a diverse number of devices and a base station, regardless of equipment manufacturer. Previous BANs rely on proprietary software, or protocols that are specialized to the physical device. Our protocol takes a more universal approach, allowing any device to participate in a BAN without introducing any significant overhead or running cost to the operation of that BAN. Unlike previous approaches, any existing motes and the base station will not have to be updated. Only new devices being added to the BAN will have to implement the protocol before connecting. Our protocol introduces overhead that reduced the performance and lifetime of the motes used in our BAN.


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A Little Heat Now, or a Lot Later?
by Jordan J. Ballor • August 5, 2005
Acton senior fellow Marvin Olasky writes about two examples of churches placing the needs of Christians and evangelism in the developing world above their own congregational comforts. In the first piece, Olasky discusses Mount Zion United Methodist Church just outside of Baltimore.
While mid-Atlantic heat can be oppressive, it's nothing compared that of the everlasting lake of fire. With this priority of the eternal over the temporal in mind, the congregation decided "the sanctuary would get air conditioning only after the congregation built a church in Africa."
To this end, Olasky writes, "The church came up with the money, and from there, amazingly, everything — personnel, permits, property, governmental approvals, construction — went right. The orphanage opened in 2003 and now provides food, shelter, medical care, clothing and schooling for the children at a cost of about $11,000 per month." And thus the Children of Zion orphanage in Namibia was founded.
The second story is about Damascus Wesleyan Church, north of Washington, DC, that instead of expanding worship space, "went to purchase a 99-year-lease on 10,000 acres here in Senkobo, 15 miles north of Livingstone and the Zimbabwe border. The land came with a beautiful farm house, 2,700 fruit trees, cattle and other animals, four deep wells, three dams, a tobacco-curing barn that could be turned into apartments, and other farm buildings that could become orphanages and classrooms."
It's great to hear about Christian churches taking action themselves, loving their neighbors, and not succumbing to morality melting materialism.
Jordan J. Ballor
Jordan J. Ballor (Dr. theol., University of Zurich; Ph.D., Calvin Theological Seminary) is a senior research fellow and director of publishing at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty. He is also a postdoctoral researcher in theology and economics at the VU University Amsterdam as part of the "What Good Markets Are Good For" project. He is author of Get Your Hands Dirty: Essays on Christian Social Thought (and Action) (Wipf & Stock, 2013), Covenant, Causality, and Law: A Study in the Theology of Wolfgang Musculus (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012) and Ecumenical Babel: Confusing Economic Ideology and the Church's Social Witness (Christian's Library Press, 2010), as well as editor of numerous works, including Abraham Kuyper Collected Works in Public Theology. Jordan is also associate director of the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research at Calvin Theological Seminary.
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Sheep farmers battle coyote attacks
MOUNT SIDNEY – Leo Tammi started weaning his lambs from their mothers in early July.
The operation he and his family run, Shamoka Run Farm, is tedious when it comes to statistics on its herd. The farm operates on more than 400 acres of owned and rented land with 500 ewes. Each lamb is tagged, weighed and registered within days after birth.
So when they started noticing lambs just disappearing, they knew it couldn't just be coincidence.
"There was no physical evidence," Tammi said. He thought coyotes were coming into the pastures and dragging the lambs out.
"They must have been carried off when they were really small," he said about the sheep. "We expect to get coyotes damage every year and we take measures, but we had no indication. The (coyotes) usually leave a carcass."
The Tammi family lost more than 100 lambs to predators last year.
Not only does the farm take a hit by losing a new flock, Tammi said, but if the lambs are taken from their mother too soon, the ewe can develop an udder infection that results in lost production with that ewe for years.
"It's not just the loss of a lamb, it's the loss of a productive ewe," he said.
Leo Tammi said he and his family aren't strangers to predators on the farm. Just this time the attacks came with no warning signs.
"We expect predator damage, often we don't know who the culprit is," Tammi said.
It could be a number of things like bear, bobcats, but he tends to think it's coyotes, because they usually prey on sheep. The Tammis have snares set up around areas where coyotes could get to the sheep in pasture, electric fences and a number of guard dogs to ensure the safety of the flock.
Leo Tammi's son, Aaron, said there was a time when they were losing lambs and the snares they set up were left untouched.
In the summer, the Tammis ran into trouble with tall grass that would camouflage the coyotes, which resulted in a sheep killed almost every night.
Each coyote is different though, Leo Tammi said. Some coyotes come into the flock and just run around with them. Others come, kill and eat everything. And some just kill for the fun of it.
"One of the frustrating things about it is they'll have their kill and they hardly touch it," he said. "It's like, if they do kill, they'd clean their plates."
Aaron Tammi said he found a ewe that had given birth to triplets that a coyote discovered and killed.
"The coyotes are just bullies, and most of the time they just kill for fun," he said. "They're savvy enough to slip in and kill them within a matter of a minute."
There's a balance farmers need to keep when it comes to keeping the coyotes from attacking, said Chad Fox, Western District supervisor for the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services.
There are lethal and nonlethal methods to keep from attacks, like moving the herd to different pastures, having guard animals, like the dogs the Tammis have, or llamas or donkeys.
"From the farmers' standpoint, they have to look at all the methods and use them in conjunction with each other," Fox said.
The coyote population has stabilized in this area within the past five years, Fox said. But it's really hit or miss when it comes to predator attacks.
"It can vary from year to year," he said. Some coyotes can wreak havoc on farms.
Either the coyotes haven't learned to eat livestock or they rely on other food sources, Fox said.
There used to be a bounty in Augusta County for coyotes, but it was done away with in 2010 because of funding. Each coyote killed was worth $50 through the Virginia Cooperative Coyote Damage Control Program.
According to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, coyotes are not native to Virginia and were first sighted in the 1950s.
"The coyote is an opportunistic forager that will consume anything of nutritional value," the game and fisheries department website said. "They do not specialize in hunting and killing only one type of prey, and they will not turn down an easy meal ... coyotes will prey and scavenge on anything including vegetable matter and fruits, insects and the meat of wildlife killed or scavenged."
Coyotes usually prey on small rodents, but will kill larger animals like livestock or big game, according to the department.
Fox said he's been getting reports from many farmers in the area about coyote attacks, mainly from sheep farmers.
The Tammis have had the farm since 1980. But with what they've experienced the past year is eerie. Animals have just disappeared, Leo Tammi's wife, Judy, said.
"We've suffered huge losses," she said. They try to keep an eye on everything. "I walk with the dogs twice a day and the animals are gone."
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Q: How to create a dynamic 2D character array using operator new? I want to use new operator to create an array of strings. But I am not able to figure out how to do this using a single command.
I can do this using calloc  like arg = (char*) calloc(totalarg_velanalyze, 5);
But I have been told to use new instead.

A: If the intention is to allocate a contiguous array of fixed-length char arrays (what you call a 2D char array), the syntax isn't terrible. The row width must be a compile-time constant, but the number of rows can be arbitrary. Given some arbitrary primary dimension n and some fixed size row-width M, you would do it like this:
char (*p)[M] = new char[n][M];

and delete it like this when no longer needed:
delete [] p;

Access to any buffer i from 0..n-1 is done as:
p[i]

such as copying "foo" to the third row:
std::strcpy(p[2], "foo");

just as you would with a regular fixed array of arrays.
That said, I would advise that unless you have a compelling reason to do  otherwise (some specific odd legacy API or some such) that you use the standard library containers. They really are the cats whiskers. At a minimum you should use smart pointers, as raw pointers should not own resources.
Hope it helps (particularly heeding the last paragraph).

A: If you are using C++ its best to use vector of strings.
You can declare it as
vector<string> varname(length);
varname[0]="xyz";
varname[1]="dfg";

or you can let the length be unspecified and add elements using push_back();

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There's a new Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 coming next year, and according to Ford it will pack over 700 horsepower.
We've heard that the final figure might be closer to 800 horses and now a clue may have come our way in the form of potential Easter egg tucked away in an online brochure for the 2018 Mustang.
Thanks to an eagle-eyed Reddit user, we've learned that page eight of the 24-page brochure shows the 2018 Mustang's digital gauge cluster, which just so happens to show a car in 7th gear and traveling at 72 mph. Put 7 and 72 together and you're looking at 772. Yes, we could be looking at a 772-hp GT500.
That's not all. We also see that the gauge shows a 74.3-mile reading on the odometer; does this translate to 743 pound-feet of torque? We can't know for sure until Ford says so.
There is a precedent for all of this, however. In the lead up to the reveal of the 2018 Mustang, Ford provided a clue about the power rating of the Mustang GT in a similar fashion. In the previous case, an image of the Mustang's digital gauge cluster showed a car in 4th gear and traveling at 55 mph. As Mustang fans will recall, 455 hp was the targeted output for the Mustang GT but the final result was an even better 460 hp.
Few actually realized there was a hidden clue until Ford spokesperson Mike Levine mentioned it in a Twitter post last January.
What we do know about the new GT500 is that it will come with a supercharged 5.2-liter V-8 related to the naturally aspirated mill in the Shelby GT350 and Shelby GT350R. We're not expecting the GT500 to get the flat-plane crank of the GT350 duo, however.
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Best Offline Music Player Apps To Listen Music Without WiFi or Internet!
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We might disagree on a lot of things but one thing that many of us can agree on is that – Life's boring without music! And thanks to our smartphones we can listen to music anytime, anywhere. But most of us don't like to stream music online, we prefer it listening offline. That's where Offline Music Player Apps are the most useful.
Streaming music is a new thing, those who have been using mobile phones for a long time back know we all used to download mp3 files and just play them. It was very easy and won't use as much data as streaming music online. Sure, streaming music is fun but some prefer it the old way. It also helps when you don't have a data connection or WiFi available.
10 Best Offline Music Player Apps
Poweramp
Website: Poweramp Music Player
Poweramp offline music player is one of the most popular and oldest music players available for smartphones. And this app features a ton of advanced features to the user that can be useful while listening to offline music. One of the best things about Poweramp is that you can customize its user interface. As a result, you can make Poweramp look like whatever you want. You can change various things related to the user interface of Poweramp via its Settings. It's our favorite offline music player app.
This includes colors, buttons, animations, and much more. Apart from user interface settings, Poweramp also offers a powerful equalizer to the user. Such a feature can be quite useful for users who want the best audio possible. You can easily change the audio signature of the Poweramp music player via the EQ settings. Even though this app has a paid version, the free version is more than enough for most smartphone users.
Website: VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player is a great offline media player for computers. And now it is also available for smartphones on both Android as well as iOS. As a result, you can have the same experience on your mobile phone as your computer. Apart from listening to offline music, you can also use VLC for watching videos on your smartphone. Due to this, it is the only media player that you will need to install on your device. And the mobile version of VLC also offers all of the advanced features that you find in the computer version.
It offers an equalizer to the user along with multiple presets to change what your music sounds like. Apart from that, you can also stream music on your home network or using online servers in the VLC app. One of the best things about VLC offline player is that it supports most of the audio formats and codecs out there. As a result, you can play any kind of music file using VLC Media Player on your smartphone.
Shuttle Music Player
Website: Shuttle Music Player
Shuttle Music Player is one of the simplest and straight forward music players available out there. And this is possible due to the very modern and sleek user interface of this app. As it uses material design for the theme, it makes the music player look very refreshing. Not only that but it also allows its users to change the colors of the app.
And you can even go full dark mode in the Shuttle Music Player which will be loved by most users. While this app does not have any advanced features for the user, it makes a great choice for the minimalistic user. It offers all of the basic features that you can ever want for listening to music on your smartphone. As you would expect, Shuttle Music Player also supports all of the major music formats out there.
Website: Google Play Music
Google Play Music is one of the most popular music players among Android smartphone users. This music player app comes installed on a lot of Android devices out of the box. As a result, the chances are that Google Play Music is already installed on your smartphone. But when compared to other offline music players out there, Google Play Music is a little different. It offers a great balance between offline music and online music streaming.
Google Play Music users can either listen to the offline music tracks stored in their storage or get the streaming subscription. But no matter which method you chose to listen to music, it will offer a great music listening experience. The user interface of Google Play Music is also quite good since it is developed by Google. And it allows the user to easily browse through multiple audio tracks for listening.
Musixmatch Lyrics
Website: Musixmatch Lyrics
As the name suggests, Musixmatch Lyrics is a great music player if you want to know the lyrics of the song that you are listening to. If you like to sing while listening to music, then this music player can be a great option. It shows the lyrics of the music track that you are listening on your smartphone. Not only that but these lyrics are synced with the music track that is playing.
As a result, singing songs while reading the lyrics becomes quite easy. Apart from this, Musixmatch Lyrics also offers a Karaoke mode to its. This mode simply removes the vocals from songs so that you can sing along with it. One of the best things about the Musixmatch Lyrics music player is that it works with other music players as well. Musixmatch Lyrics is able to do this by using an overlay that shows you the lyrics.
Pulsar Music Player
Website: Pulsar Music Player
Pulsar Music Player is another great music player that offers a lot of advanced features. But even though this app is made for advanced users, it is quite easy to use. This is possible due to the great user interface of the Pulsar Music Player app. You can find all of the different music categories right on the home screen of this app. It's a good offline music player.
Not only that but since it uses material design, it also looks quite good in terms of the design and layout of the app. As a result, Pulsar Music Player can be a great choice for both casual as well as advanced smartphone users. One of the best things about Pulsar Music Player is that it supports external equalizers as well. Such a feature can be quite useful for smartphones that come with an inbuilt equalizer. But if you do not want to use that, Pulsar also offers its own equalizer.
Website: AIMP
AIMP is another popular music player app available computers for a long time. But now it is also available to download and install for smartphones. As a result, you get to enjoy all of the advanced features available in the computer version right on your smartphone. And it offers all of these advanced features along with a user interface that works perfectly on mobile devices. Not only that but AIMP also supports a large number of audio formats and codecs.
This allows the user to play any kind of music file they want to on a smartphone. Apart from that, finding your favorite music tracks is also quite easy in the AIMP app. It offers a search option along with various categories right on the home screen. These can help you in saving a lot of time while playing music tracks on any smartphone. And the best part about AIMP is that you get all of this for completely free.
Avee Music Player
Website: Avee Music Player
Avee Music Player is quite different from most of the offline music players out there. Just as you would expect, this app allows the user to play offline tracks without needing an internet connection. But where it differentiates from most music players is its user interface. One of the best things about Avee Music Player is that it comes with a music visualizer. This feature offers you various dynamic animations while you listen to music that looks quite good.
And these animations change according to the music that is currently playing. If you have ever used Windows Media Player and its visualizer, then you will find this feature quite fun to use. But even if you do not use this feature, Avee Music Player is still a great music player. It works perfectly with most of the popular audio formats. And the user interface also makes this music player app quite easy to use.
Phonograph Music Player
Website: Phonograph Music Player
The phonograph is another great music player app for smartphones that is quite similar to Shuttle. Just like Shuttle, Phonograph Music Player is also a quite simple and straight forward app. The user interface of this app takes a minimalistic approach which makes the app look quite modern and sleek. Not only that but the whole app uses a very modern material design which is found in all of the latest mobile apps.
And just like Shuttle, Phonograph also allows its users to change the color of the user interface. As a result, you can make the colors of this music player match the rest of your phone's theme and user interface. One of the best things about the Phonograph Music Player is that it also offers an equalizer. This feature is quite great to have in a simple app like Phonograph. You can easily use it to change the sound signature of the songs that you are listening to.
Foobar 2000
Website: Foobar 2000
Foobar 2000 is hands down the most advanced and flexible music player available for computers. It allows the user to install various kinds of plugins and addons to add further functionality. And now Foobar 2000 is also available to download and install on Android devices for completely free. While the mobile version does not support plugins and addons, it is still a great advanced music player for smartphone users. There are a lot of customization features offered in the Foobar 2000 app.
It allows you to completely change the user interface of this music player in terms of the options and menus that you get. As a result, finding your favorite music tracks is quite easy. Foobar 2000 also supports lossless audio formats with the highest possible bitrate without doing any post-processing. As a result, it delivers the best possible audio quality when compared to other smartphone music players. And Foobar 2000 users get all of this for completely free without facing any ads.
The best offline music player is different for everyone. Personally, we are a fan of AIMP music player. But all these music players are great for listening to music offline. This marks the end of this article, we hope you found a music player according to your needs.
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Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Artist's Daughter (2002), The Narrow Road to the Interior (2006), Toxic Flora (2010), and Brain Fever (2014). Hahn is the winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the American Book Award, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has also been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hahn teaches in the MFA program at Queens College. In 2016, she was elected president of the Poetry Society of America.
Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He is the author of two books: Puerta del Sol and Glow of Our Sweat, as well as editor of the anthology, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. His third book, After Rubén, is slated for publication in 2020. His Tongue a Swath of Sky, a chapbook, is due out in 2019. He's been a featured poet at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival and the Dodge Poetry Festival. In 2017, he was a finalist for Split This Rock's Freedom Plow Award for poetry and activism. A CantoMundo fellow and a member of the Macondo Writers' workshop, he directs Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies. For more information, visit franciscoaragon.net.
Elizabeth J. Coleman, the Q&A moderator for this event, is a poet, public-interest attorney, environmental activist, and teacher of mindfulness. She is the author of two poetry collections, The Fifth Generation (2016) and Proof (2014), which was a finalist for the University of Wisconsin Press's Brittingham and Pollak prizes. She is also the author of two chapbooks. Her poems have been published in a number of journals, including Rattle and The Bellevue Literary Revue, and a number of anthologies. She is a vice president of the Poetry Society of America. A member of the New York, Georgia and D.C. Bars, and a past attorney and board chair at several nonprofit legal organization, Elizabeth runs a small environmental nonprofit. In Here, Elizabeth has brought together her love for poetry, for justice, and for our planet.
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Ant and Dec's disbelief at items I'm A Celeb cast tried to smuggle back to camp
The cast of the ITV show were forced to abandon the set for several days due to extreme weather conditions – and they took some extreme liberties with the items they tried to smuggle back into the set
Seamus DuffShowbiz Reporter
I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! is back in full swing after being forced off the air due to stormy weather – and the stars of the show got busted trying to smuggle extra supplies into camp when they returned following the storms.
Show hosts Ant and Dec revealed on Wednesday nights' episode of the ITV series that some of the campmates had tried to return to the show set with various supplies concealed on their persons.
And among the items were breakfast bars, apples, stock cubes, sweets and even fake tan and a nail file.
But the celebs should have guessed that they wouldn't be able to get the items back into their camp – and indeed the show hosts were on hand to mock them for even trying as they showed off the items the stars had tried to conceal.
Ant and Dec were shocked to find the I'm A Celeb cast had tried to smuggle banned items back into the castle (Image: ITV)
Showing the items to the cameras, Ant and Dec shared their astonishment at the hoard of items – which also included some Vaseline and ground pepper.
A show source told The Sun of the attempted smuggling: "Producers knew that the celebs would try and be a bit tricky on their way in so were well prepared for it. They checked everyone's belongings, coats, pockets — even their socks.
"It was comical how much they found. Everything got confiscated and each of them was given a slap on the wrist and sent on their way.
Apples, sweet and even fake tan were found on the persons of the campmates (Image: ITV)
"Kadeena might look like butter wouldn't melt, but she was by far the worst offender, packing her stuff with sweets, and other stuff.
"Bosses saw the funny side of it and you can't blame the celebs given they've got at least another week in grim conditions to get through."
It has been claimed Corrie star Simon Gregson tried to take in three beef Oxo cubes, ground pepper and some Vaseline.
Kadeena Cox tried to make her way back in to camp with two apples, a handful of Werther's Originals and Frutellas and an Oxo cube.
While Snoochie Shy tried to take in some breakfast biscuits and Danny Miller tried to smuggle in coffee sachets.
The smuggling incidents follows a similar stunt performed by Naughty Boy when the celebs first entered the cast last month – and long before they were evacuated due to Storm Arwen.
The music producer smuggled some spices into his socks in the hopes of adding some flavour and seasoning to camp meals.
But the star confessed he had the cooking supplies – and explained all in the castle telegraph on day one: "Before I left, I grinded some spices that could make rice and beans actually taste a bit nice so what I did, I put it in my sock.
Simon Gregson tried to get some Vaseline into camp (Image: REX)
"There's cumin seeds, cloves, turmeric, coriander seeds. If you could smell this. Wow. And black peppercorns."
While he told his campmates: "I had whole organic spices so I crushed some and I put it in cling film and I put it in my sock.
"I thought I was going to add it to the rice and beans and make it taste better but I asked them if it was ok if I used a bit because we're suffering enough as it is and they confiscated it."
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Life in front of the bars – Wisbech students hear a prison officer's story
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Students at College of West Anglia's Wisbech campus with custodial manager Emma Wilson, from Whitemoor Prison, March - Credit: Archant
Uniformed and public service students from the College of West Anglia's Wisbech campus heard about the life of a prison officer during a careers presentation.
Custodial manager Emma Wilson, from HM Prison Whitemoor, gave an insight into Her Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) recruitment process and outlined the day-to-day running of a modern high-security prison.
Students asked questions about pay, terms and conditions of service and what a new potential trainee officer could expect in their initial stages of training.
Adrian Kent, Level 3 uniformed services tutor at CWA Wisbech, said: "Emma took time to share both funny and moving experiences from her career to date.
"Students and staff were in stitches, as well as awestruck by the professionalism displayed daily by our serving HMPS prison officers.
"We wish to thank Emma for her most informative, and inspirational HMPS careers presentation and wish her all the best for the future."


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Tigers among people…I'm Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update.
Tigers are highly endangered, with less than 4,000 remaining in the wild. But in Nepal's Chitwan National Park, they appear to be adapting to the presence of humans. This according to Michigan State University conservation scientist Neil Carter. He and his colleagues set up motion-activated camera traps in the park, which snapped photos of the big cats as they wandered by.
NEIL CARTER (Michigan State University):
We expected that given the tigers' elusive and shy nature that they would avoid people.
But instead, his team found that the tigers used the same trails and roads as humans and motorized vehicles. But they shifted their hunting schedule to nighttime, when humans were asleep.
Carter adds that the tiger population appears to be stable and possibly even increasing in the area. He says this may be thanks to government crackdowns on tiger poaching as well as the ready availability of prey. I'm Bob Hirshon, for AAAS, the science society.
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The "Betsy Ross" flag
A "Betsy Ross" flag flying outside San Francisco City Hall, in San Francisco, California
The Betsy Ross flag is an early design of the flag of the United States, named for upholsterer and flag maker Betsy Ross. The pattern, which was in use as early as 1777, uses the common themes of alternating red-and-white striped area with stars in a blue canton. Its distinguishing feature is thirteen 5-pointed stars arranged in a circle to represent the unity of the Thirteen Colonies. As a historic U.S. flag, it has long been a popular symbol of American patriotism.
1 Betsy Ross story
2 "Ross question"
3 "First Flag"
4 Symbolism
4.1 Political and cultural significance
Betsy Ross story[edit]
Betsy Ross 1777, a ca. 1920 depiction by artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris of Ross showing Gen. George Washington (seated, left), Robert Morris and George Ross how she cut the revised five-pointed stars for the flag.
This pattern is now commonly called the "Betsy Ross flag", although the claim by her descendants that Betsy Ross contributed to this design is not generally accepted by modern American scholars and vexillologists.[1]
Betsy Ross, an upholsterer in Philadelphia who produced uniforms, tents, and flags for Continental forces, became a notable figure representing the contribution of women in the American Revolution.[2] The National Museum of American History notes that the story first entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 Centennial Exposition celebrations.[3] In 1870, Ross's grandson, William J. Canby, presented a paper to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in which he claimed that his grandmother had "made with her hands the first flag" of the United States.[4] Canby said he first obtained this information from his aunt Clarissa Sydney Wilson (née Claypoole) in 1857, twenty years after Betsy Ross's death. In his account, the original flag was made in June 1776, when a small committee – including George Washington, Robert Morris and relative George Ross – visited Betsy and discussed the need for a new American flag. Betsy accepted the job to manufacture the flag, altering the committee's design by replacing the six-pointed stars with five-pointed stars. Canby dates the historic episode based on Washington's journey to Philadelphia, in late spring 1776, a year before Congress passed the Flag Act.[5]
Ross biographer Marla Miller points out, however, that even if one accepts Canby's presentation, Betsy Ross was merely one of several flag makers in Philadelphia, and her only contribution to the design was to change the 6-pointed stars to the easier 5-pointed stars.[6]
"Ross question"[edit]
The "Betsy Ross" flag is featured on the seal of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, together with the modern United States flag to represent veterans throughout United States history.
Canby's account has been the source of some debate. It is generally regarded as being neither proven nor disproven, and any evidence that may have once existed has been lost.[7] The main reason historians and flag experts do not believe that Betsy Ross designed or sewed the first American flag is a lack of historical evidence and documentation to support her story.[8] It is worth pointing out that while modern lore may exaggerate the details of her story, Canby's account of Betsy Ross never claimed any contribution to the flag design except for the five-pointed star, which was simply easier for her to make.[9][10]
Common arguments against Canby's story include:
No records show that the Continental Congress had a committee to design the national flag in the spring of 1776.
Although George Washington had been a member of the Continental Congress, he had assumed the position of commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775, so it would be unlikely that he would have headed a congressional committee in 1776.
In letters and diaries that have surfaced, neither George Washington, Col. Ross, Robert Morris, nor any other member of Congress mentioned anything about a national flag in 1776. Francis Hopkinson, a treasurer of loans and a consultant to the second congressional committee, has a naval design from 1780 which was clearly a derivative of earlier designs.
The Flag Resolution of June 1777 was the first documented meeting, discussion, or debate by Congress about a national flag.
Grace Rogers Cooper documented the first use of this flag in 1792.[11]
Although Ross, an upholsterer, was paid to sew flags, this was not unusual. There was a sudden and urgent need for them, and other Philadelphia upholsterers were also paid to sew flags in 1777 and years following.
Supporters of Canby's story cite the following facts to defend his account:
Robert Morris was a business partner of John Ross, Betsy's cousin by marriage. He also had served with George Ross on the Marine Committee.[12] Morris was on the Marine Committee at the time the flag vote was taken as part of Marine Committee business.[13]
George Washington has at least one documented transaction with John and Betsy Ross, when he bought bed hangings from them in 1774.[14]
George Washington was an acquaintances of John Ross' uncle George Read, and they served on a committee together in 1776.
George Washington was in Philadelphia in Spring 1776, where he served on a committee with John Ross' uncle George Read, and Congress approved $50,000 for the acquisition of tents and "sundry articles" for the Continental Army.[15]
On May 29, 1777, Betsy Ross was paid a large sum of money from the Pennsylvania State Navy Board for making flags.[16]
Rachel Fletcher, Betsy Ross's daughter, gave an affidavit to the Betsy Ross story.[17]
A painting which might be dated 1851 by Ellie Wheeler, allegedly the daughter of Thomas Sully, shows Betsy Ross sewing the flag. If the painting is authentic and the date correct, the story was known nearly 20 years before Canby's presentation to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.[18]
"First Flag"[edit]
A 6¢ stamp with the Betsy Ross design was released in 1968 as part of the "Historic Flag" series.[19]
Canby's account and similar versions of the Betsy Ross tale often refer to this design as the "first American flag," but there is no consensus on what the first U.S. flag looked like, nor who produced it. There were at least 17 flag makers and upholsterers who worked in Philadelphia during the time these early American flags were made. Margaret Manny is thought to have made the first Continental Colors (or Grand Union Flag), but there is no evidence to prove she also made the Stars and Stripes. Other flag makers of that period include Rebecca Young, Anne King, Cornelia Bridges, and flag painter William Barrett. Hugh Stewart sold a "flag of the United Colonies" to the Committee of Safety, and William Alliborne was one of the first to manufacture United States ensigns.[20] Any flag maker in Philadelphia could have sewn the first American flag. Even according to Canby, there were other variations of the flag being made at the same time Ross was sewing the design that would carry her name. If true, there may not be one "first" flag, but many.
The Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution on June 14, 1777, establishing the first congressional description of official United States ensigns. The shape and arrangement of the stars is not mentioned – there were variations – but the legal description gives the Ross flag legitimacy.
Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.[21]
As late as 1779, the War Board of Continental Congress had still not settled on what the Standard of the United States should look like. The committee sent a letter to General Washington asking his opinion, and submitting a design that included the serpent, as well as a number corresponding to the state which flew the flag.[22]
Francis Hopkinson is often given credit for the Betsy Ross design, as well as other 13-star arrangements. In a 1780 letter to the Continental Board of Admiralty dealing with the Great Seal, Hopkinson mentioned patriotic designs he created in the past few years including "the Flag of the United States of America." He asked for compensation for his designs, but his claim was rejected on the basis that others also contributed to the design. Ross Biographer Marla Miller asserts that the question of Betsy Ross' involvement in the flag should not be one of design, but of production and entrepreneurship[14]. Even so, history researchers must accept that the United States flag evolved, and did not have one designer. "The flag, like the Revolution it represents, was the work of many hands."[23]
Symbolism[edit]
See also: Flag_of_the_United_States § History
The 1779 portrait Washington at Princeton shows a blue flag with a circle of 13 stylized 6-point white stars.
Experts can only guess the reason Congress chose stripes, stars, and the colors red, white, and blue for the flag. Historians and experts discredit the common theory that the stripes and five-pointed stars derived from the Washington family coat of arms.[24] While this theory adds to Washington's legendary involvement in the development of the first flag, no evidence – other than the obvious one that his coat of arms, like the Stars and Stripes, has stars and stripes in it – exists to show any connection between the two. Washington was aware that "most admire ... the trappings of elevated office," but for himself claimed "To me there is nothing in it."[25] However, he frequently used (for example, as his bookplate) his family coat of arms with three five-pointed red stars and three red-and-white stripes, on which is based the flag of the District of Columbia. The use of red and blue in flags at this time in history may derive from the relative fastness of the dyes indigo and cochineal, providing blue and red colors respectively, as aniline dyes were unknown.
The true meaning of the symbols of the flag may be tied to ancient history. Stars were a device representing man's desire to achieve greatness, as in the idiom "reach for the stars." Stars of various shapes were also important symbols in European heraldry, and stars appear in colonial flags as early as 1676[26] Another possibility may come from Freemasonry. Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Robert Livingston, Paul Revere, and other important people of that period belonged to the fraternal order. Some may think they may have influenced the inclusion of stars in the American flag, however, stars of this type, although sometimes used as a decorative device, like pyramids, were not an important icon in Freemasonry.[27]
Stars carried various meanings in European heraldry, differing with the shape and number of points. Although early American flags featured stars with various numbers of points, the five-pointed star is the defining feature of the Betsy Ross design, and became the norm on Navy Ensigns. This may have been simply because five-pointed stars were more clearly defined from a distance.[28] The arrangement of the stars varied widely throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
There is a possibility that the circular star configuration of the Betsy Ross Flag was inspired by the circular star configuration as a halo in a painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo called The Immaculate Conception, dated around 1767 to 1769. It is a painting in the Prado collection in Spain. Francis Hopkinson had spent time with a friend named Benjamin West, an American painter who had studied painting in Italy during the time when Giovanni Battista was a sensation both at home and abroad.[29]
The usage of stripes in the flag may be linked to two pre-existing flags. A 1765 Sons of Liberty flag flown in Boston had nine red and white stripes, and a flag used by Captain Abraham Markoe's Philadelphia Light Horse Troop in 1775 had 13 blue and silver stripes.[30] One or both of these flags likely influenced the design of the American flag.
The most logical explanation for the colors of the American flag is that it was modeled after the first unofficial American flag, the Grand Union Flag. In turn the Grand Union Flag was probably designed using the colors of Great Britain's Union Jack or East India Company. The colors on the shield of the Great Seal are the same as the colors in the American flag. To attribute meaning to these colors, Charles Thomson, who helped design the Great Seal, reported to Congress that "White signifies purity and innocence. Red hardiness and valor and Blue... signifies vigilance, perseverance and justice."
Political and cultural significance[edit]
The "Betsy Ross" design displayed at the first inauguration of Barack Obama.[31] It has often been used at presidential inaugurations.
The Betsy Ross flag has long been regarded as a symbol of the American Revolution and the young Republic.[32] In the 2008 book The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of an American Icon, Smithsonian experts point out that William J. Canby's recounting of the event appealed to Americans eager for stories about the revolution and its heroes and heroines. Betsy Ross was promoted as a patriotic role model for young girls and a symbol of women's contributions to American history.[33] Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich further explored this line of enquiry in a 2007 article, "How Betsy Ross Became Famous: Oral Tradition, Nationalism, and the Invention of History."[34]
In 1952, the US government issued a 3¢ stamp to commemorate Betsy Ross' birthday 200-years earlier. The stamp shows Betsy presenting a flag she sewed to George Washington and George Ross (her uncle by marriage) and Robert Morris.[35] A 6¢ stamp with the Betsy Ross design was released in 1968 as part of the "Historic Flag" series,[36] and a 10¢ stamp was released in 1973 showing the Betsy Ross and the 50-star flag together, to commemorate the United States Bicentennial.[37]
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^ "History of American Women". Retrieved July 3, 2019.
^ The Star-Spangled Banner, Lonn Taylor, Kathleen M. Kendrick, and Jeffrey L Brodie. Smithsonian Books/Collins Publishing (New York:2008)
^ Buescher, John. "All Wrapped up in the Flag" Teachinghistory.org, accessed August 21, 2011.
^ "The History of the Flag of the United States" by William Canby Archived February 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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^ Cooper, Grace Rogers (1973). Thirteen-Star Flags. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 9, 11 (in paper), pp. 21, 23/80 (in pdf). CiteSeerX 10.1.1.639.8200. In 1792, Trumbull painted thirteen stars in a circle in his General George Washington at Trenton in the Yale University Art Gallery. In his unfinished rendition of the Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, date not established, the circle of stars is suggested and one star shows six points while the thirteen stripes are of red, white, and blue. How accurately the artist depicted the star design that he saw is not known. At times, he may have offered a poetic version of the flag he was interpreting which was later copied by the flag maker. The flag sheets and the artists do not agree.{...} Star arrangement Number of star points Colors of stripe Earliest usage {...} (13 stars in a circle) not visible red, white 1792
^ Journals Continental Congress, 6:894
^ Letters of Delegates to Congress 7:204–6
^ a b Miller, Marla R. (June 2016). "Citizen Seamstress". The American Legion. Vol. 180. Indianapolis: The American Legion. p. 32-36.
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^ "Women on Stamps: Betsy Ross". Smithsonian Institute. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
^ "Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, 8:464".
^ Hall, Edward (January 7, 1914). "The American Flag; Not Derived From Washington's Coat of Arms". The New York Times. p. 10.
^ Washington, George. 'Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham. October 3, 1789, p. 1.
^ Mastai, p. 32. Portsmouth and Providence both featured flags with stars by 1680.
^ Mackey, Albert Gallatin (1909). Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.
^ "The Joseph Downs Collection", 'Winterthur Library', accessed March 24, 2008.
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^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 4, 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-15. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
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Mastai, Boleslaw; Mastai, Marie-Louise D'Otrange (1973). The Stars and the Stripes. The American Flag as Art and as History from the Birth of the Republic to the Present'. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-47217-9.
Miller, Marla R. (2010). Betsy Ross and the Making of America. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC. ISBN 978-0-8050-8297-5.
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Lafayette dollar
Silver bullion coins
Cultural depictions
George Washington (1984 miniseries
1986 sequel)
A More Perfect Union (1989 film)
Founding Fathers of the United States
Virginia dynasty
Cherry-tree anecdote
River Farm
Washington's Crossing
1751 Barbados trip
Syng inkstand
General of the Armies
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
and family
Martha Washington (wife)
John Parke Custis (stepson)
George Washington Parke Custis (step-grandson, adopted son)
Eleanor Parke Custis (step-granddaughter, adopted daughter)
Augustine Washington (father)
Mary Ball Washington (mother)
Lawrence Washington (half-brother)
Augustine Washington Jr. (half-brother)
Betty Washington Lewis (sister)
Samuel Washington (brother)
John A. Washington (brother)
Charles Washington (brother)
Lawrence Washington (grandfather)
John Washington (great-grandfather)
Bushrod Washington (nephew)
John Adams →
United States Senator, Pennsylvania, 1789–1795
Superintendent of Finance of the United States, 1781–1784
Second Continental Congress, 1775–1778
Financier of the American Revolution
Signed, Declaration of Independence
Signed, Articles of Confederation
Signed, United States Constitution
1776 Model Treaty
Committee of Secret Correspondence, Second Continental Congress
Chairman, Pennsylvania Committee of Safety
U.S. Superintendent of Finance
Agent of the Marine
Bank of North America
Nova Constellatio
Philadelphia as U.S. capital city, 1790–1800
President's House
Willing, Morris & Co. (Slavery)
Use of the dollar sign
Empress of China merchant ship
Old China Trade
Phelps and Gorham Purchase
Summerseat home
1788 U.S. Senate election
Panic of 1796–97
Christ Church, Philadelphia, burial site
Robert Morris University, Pennsylvania
Robert Morris University, Illinois
Robert Morris statue, Philadelphia
Depicted in The Apotheosis of Washington
Heald Square Monument, Chicago
Mount Morris, New York
Morrisville, Pennsylvania
USS Morris
Thomas Willing
USS Alfred
Thomas Morris (son)
Bishop William White (brother-in-law)
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1777 establishments in the United States
Flags introduced in 1777
Flags of the American Revolution